Combined step-ladder and ironing-board



MQGAMPBBLL. Combined Step Ladder and Ironing Board.

No. 227,346. Patented May 11,1880.

TYiinss/ea MARVIN CAMPBELL, OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA.

COMBINED STEP-LADDER AND lRONlNG-BOARD.

' SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 227,346, dated May '11, 1880.

Application filed February 4, 1880.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARVIN CAMPBELL, of South Bend, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Step- Ladder and Ironing-Board; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1 shows the article adjusted as a step-ladder, and Fig. 2 as an ironing-board.

A step-ladder, A, has a board, B, hinged at or near its upper end, A, and the board B has a pair of legs, (J and O, hinged to it at d and d. The legs 0 O are connected together by a cross-bar, E.

The operation is as follows Fora step-ladder, turn the legs 0 0 parallel to and resting against the under side of the boardB, as in Fig. 1. The legs 0 0 now become the legs of a step-ladder, andv by spreading the ladder and board apart at the bottom a neat and firm step-ladder is produced.

For an ironing-board, the legs 0 O are swung around until they cross the ladder at about right angles, when the cross-bar E enters notches in the rear side of the ladder-standards, and the upper inclined ends of the legs rest against the under side of the board, the legs and ladder thus forming a strong and firm support for the ironing-board.

When not in use the whole can be folded compactly together, so as to take but little room.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The step-ladder A, having notches in the rear side of its standards, and the ironingboard B, hinged to the upper end of the ladder, in combination with the legs 0 0, having inclined upper ends, which are hinged to the inner side of the board, the legs being connected together by a cross-bar, E, all substantially as described.

MARVIN CAMPBELL.

Witnesses WM. T. CARSKADDEN,

'1. A. LEWIS. 

